‘Policeman’

Nadav Lapid’s first feature is an assured and confounding vision of Israeli economic and political balkanization. The ironies are brutal as ultra-macho muscle Jews face off against fanatical neo-narodniks as two violent, fiercely self-absorbed tribal groups—one a highly disciplined elite police unit, the other an anarchic band of left-wing Jewish terrorists—find each other at a billionaire’s wedding in contemporary Tel Aviv.